If you restric the meaning of this song to train wrecks... The line "I wanna mary a tube disaster" doesn't make much sense. What does marriage have to do with train disasters ? Nothing.
BUT, if you think the singer compares a failed marriage to a tube disaster... Then it all makes sense.
I think this song song is really about the people who get married and form a family but WITHOUT mesuring the consequences and the responsability for this choice...
I think the line "It's so much easier than the pills you can take" refers to emergency contraception pills.
"But no bloody driver's gone and made a mistake, that's yet" is about not taking responsability for the upbringing of your kids and letting society take car of it.
"Is it me that needs a home?"... Here, the use of the word "home" makes it quite clear that this song is a reference to family (notice the word chosen is "home" and not "house"... Key difference !). And this question seems to be asked by the father who, once the disaster as happened and it's too late, finally wonders if he had kids in order to give life, take care and educate, or if he did it for HIM ? In other words : is he the child that needs to be taken care of ?
The line "I want another one like the last one" refers to having more and more children... Almost like if a family ressembles a factory, where a child is not considered as an individual but just as "another one like the last one".
I think the singer specifically chose "tube disaster" and not "airplane crash" or "train wreck" because when you're inside the tube you don't see the world around you. Suggesting that the same thing happens when parents put all their attention on raising a family... Of course this is an exaggerated perception of things but, after all this is a punk song and punk isn't really about diplomacy and precaution, is it ?
@foaLtaeM To put it in more general terms... Founding something (a family, a group etc.) with the absence of true love is bound to and up as a disaster.
@foaLtaeM To put it in more general terms... Founding something (a family, a group etc.) with the absence of true love is bound to and up as a disaster.
@foaLtaeM I think you're looking too much into it. If the song was about what you say it is, then why the lyrics "I go through Moorgate and I'm wide awake"?
@foaLtaeM I think you're looking too much into it. If the song was about what you say it is, then why the lyrics "I go through Moorgate and I'm wide awake"?
"It's so much easier than the pills you can take" I believe is in reference to the fact the driver killed himself (and many passengers) by crashing the tube, rather than just by killing himself with an overdose of pills.
"It's so much easier than the pills you can take" I believe is in reference to the fact the driver killed himself (and many passengers) by crashing the tube, rather than just by killing himself with an overdose of pills.
If you restric the meaning of this song to train wrecks... The line "I wanna mary a tube disaster" doesn't make much sense. What does marriage have to do with train disasters ? Nothing. BUT, if you think the singer compares a failed marriage to a tube disaster... Then it all makes sense. I think this song song is really about the people who get married and form a family but WITHOUT mesuring the consequences and the responsability for this choice...
I think the line "It's so much easier than the pills you can take" refers to emergency contraception pills. "But no bloody driver's gone and made a mistake, that's yet" is about not taking responsability for the upbringing of your kids and letting society take car of it. "Is it me that needs a home?"... Here, the use of the word "home" makes it quite clear that this song is a reference to family (notice the word chosen is "home" and not "house"... Key difference !). And this question seems to be asked by the father who, once the disaster as happened and it's too late, finally wonders if he had kids in order to give life, take care and educate, or if he did it for HIM ? In other words : is he the child that needs to be taken care of ?
The line "I want another one like the last one" refers to having more and more children... Almost like if a family ressembles a factory, where a child is not considered as an individual but just as "another one like the last one".
I think the singer specifically chose "tube disaster" and not "airplane crash" or "train wreck" because when you're inside the tube you don't see the world around you. Suggesting that the same thing happens when parents put all their attention on raising a family... Of course this is an exaggerated perception of things but, after all this is a punk song and punk isn't really about diplomacy and precaution, is it ?
@foaLtaeM To put it in more general terms... Founding something (a family, a group etc.) with the absence of true love is bound to and up as a disaster.
@foaLtaeM To put it in more general terms... Founding something (a family, a group etc.) with the absence of true love is bound to and up as a disaster.
@foaLtaeM I think you're looking too much into it. If the song was about what you say it is, then why the lyrics "I go through Moorgate and I'm wide awake"?
@foaLtaeM I think you're looking too much into it. If the song was about what you say it is, then why the lyrics "I go through Moorgate and I'm wide awake"?
This song is clearly referring to the Moorgate tube crash in 1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
This song is clearly referring to the Moorgate tube crash in 1975: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
"It's so much easier than the pills you can take" I believe is in reference to the fact the driver killed himself (and many passengers) by crashing the tube, rather than just by killing himself with an overdose of pills.
"It's so much easier than the pills you can take" I believe is in reference to the fact the driver killed himself (and many passengers) by crashing the tube, rather than just by killing himself with an overdose of pills.
@GRJYIRIYIFH Thanks. I'd never heard about the Moorgate tube crash before. It all makes sense now.
@GRJYIRIYIFH Thanks. I'd never heard about the Moorgate tube crash before. It all makes sense now.